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WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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The cybersecurity skills gap has been plaguing enterprises for years—but despite garnering much discussion and media coverage, little progress is being made. State of Cybersecurity 2020 looks at questions such as:
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WHY IT MATTERS: this in depth study shows that cybersecurity issues in organizations stem from lack of skilled resources. With covid and remote work on the rise, the importance of cybersecurity is higher than it has ever been. 
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Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice — first with the Linux kernel, which helps power the Internet, and again with Git, the source code management system used by developers worldwide. In a rare interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Torvalds discusses with remarkable openness the personality traits that prompted his unique philosophy of work, engineering and life. "I am not a visionary, I'm an engineer," Torvalds says. "I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds ... but I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in."
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WHY IT MATTERS: short video on the creator of Linux the operating system that powers most of the digital revolution. his explanation of the personal characteristics that made him great (stubborn, focus, lack people skills) are quite common in the tech world. For those inside my world, this is going to sound familiar. For others, it may help you understand a bit more your strange tech guy in the IT department...
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A practical, expert-reviewed Guide to growing software engineering teams effectively, written by and for hiring managers, recruiters, interviewers, and candidates.
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WHY IT MATTERS: hiring technical resources is difficult because of the impact that bad hires have on organizations. Looking forward to read this guide and see what it contains as I believe we are in dire needed of some standards and benchmarks...
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Must-do's in order for your hires to reach their full potential you need to put a structure in place that encourages and nurtures their growth, both technically and as managers and leaders.
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WHY IT MATTERS: managing millenials and genZ is like herding cats sometimes. Moreover, when they are technology engineers in a high demand marketplace, they need certain things in their work environment. I find the suggested practices very sound, especially the career path illustrated here.
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When I speak to leadership teams or consult on agile transformation with corporates I’m always keen to stress that there is never one all-purpose solution to what a successful digital transformation looks like.
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WHY IT MATTERS: banks are notorious for their lack of agility and fear of change, making digital transformation a challenge. Here ING move to the concept of agile tribes is explained.
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Many brands going through a digital transformation struggle to structure their teams. This framework can act as a guideline.
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WHY IT MATTERS: digital requires skills and expertise that are very specific and often benefit from being organized in a center of excellence. This post presents some of those roles.
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September 11, 2018 11:05 AM
WHY IT MATTERS: digital requires skills and expertise that are very specific and often benefit from being organized in a center of excellence. This post presents some of those roles.
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What’s Squad? It’s a small cross-functional self-organized team with usually less than 8 people. They have end-to-end responsibilities and they work together toward long-term missions. On Squads, the key drive is autonomy. Each Squad has autonomy to decide what to build, how to build it, and how to work together while building it, although they need to be aligned with the Squad mission, product strategy, and short-term goals. “Be autonomous, but don’t sub-optimize!”.
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WHY IT MATTERS: a great 2 part article on how to implement squads to organize your agile delivery teams. This is a followup to previous blog posts on the subject: http://fmcs.digital/blog/how-spotify-structures-its-teams-to-deliver-products-in-agile-fashion/ http://fmcs.digital/blog/videos-that-describe-spotify-engineering-culture-mustwatch/ http://fmcs.digital/blog/the-origins-of-devops-10-deploys-per-day-dev-and-ops-cooperation-at-flickr/
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August 10, 2018 1:00 PM
WHY IT MATTERS: a great 2 part article on how to implement squads to organize your agile delivery teams. This is a followup to previous blog posts on the subject: http://fmcs.digital/blog/how-spotify-structures-its-teams-to-deliver-products-in-agile-fashion/ http://fmcs.digital/blog/videos-that-describe-spotify-engineering-culture-mustwatch/ http://fmcs.digital/blog/the-origins-of-devops-10-deploys-per-day-dev-and-ops-cooperation-at-flickr/
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August 20, 2018 11:51 PM
WHY IT MATTERS: a great 2 part article on how to implement squads to organize your agile delivery teams. This is a followup to previous blog posts on the subject: http://fmcs.digital/blog/how-spotify-structures-its-teams-to-deliver-products-in-agile-fashion/ http://fmcs.digital/blog/videos-that-describe-spotify-engineering-culture-mustwatch/ http://fmcs.digital/blog/the-origins-of-devops-10-deploys-per-day-dev-and-ops-cooperation-at-flickr/
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Engineering Growth Framework provides a tool to measure and reward progress in people skills @Medium
In late August we rolled out our Growth Framework, a set of documents and tools that described what we value at Medium, how to progress, and how we measure and reward that progress.
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WHY IT MATTERS: very useful framework that can be applied in many fields to manage employees in high-demand technical skills such a software engineers. A reference for me in the future.
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WHY IT MATTERS: no surprise, companies will hire technologists and agile methodology experts post confinement to enable their remote workforce ... and reduce the need for humans!